The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1887-07-14
''Bury the Flags :"
A Soldiers Journal Suggests q
Tomb and q Monument.

WAsHI.GroS, Juiy 2, 1887. The We
e tie. published here, is the organ of
the veterans of the Mexican War. In
IFS last issue is an article On Civil war
trophies What Should Ee Done With
Them" 1t concludes as follows:
The mass OF the real soldiers of the
civil war still SURVIVING earnestly de-
sire reconc liation and good feeling 10
prevail. We have had opportunity TO
display this spirit Of fraternity anima-
ting the officers and men who fongh:
on both sides in the civil conflict, ani
who won high distinction therein, dis
played with genuine earnestness at the
annual reunion of Mexican War veter-
ans, and we have been assured, by men
Of both the Union and Confederate
arm es, that the blatant Union savers
of the North and the Union haters' o.
the South, par mobile frntrLLRa,
are most in ,ignificant element of
cranks Of either side that, in point OF
fact, fully nine-tenths of the intelligent
men on both sides, have ever since the
war, bcea ready a4d wiling to frater
nize and anxious.to resume the broth
erly relations which should exist among
fellow countrymen. Besides, the mil
lions of citizens of the United States
who have become voters duricg the
past twenty-five years, have become
weary of this txaddle about dead ques.
tons, and are eager to bury the spook
who seeks to revive them.
NATIONAL RECONCILIATION.
The disposition of the captured flags
has now been referred to Congress by
the President revoking the order of the
war department. Many suggestions
have been made by the partisan press
OF the country as to the best method Of
settling the question, and the Ve1ette
may as well have its way. We therefore
suggest to our many thousands Of read
ers that the Mexican wGr veterans, who
served on either side in the late war.
prepare in writing and circulate among
their fellow citizens petitions to Goa
gress, and forward the same through
the member from their district, in form
as follows:
ITO THE HONORABLE THE SENATE AND
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS
ASSEMBLED
Your petitioners respectfully recon-
mend the enactment of law directing
that the captured battle flags in the late
evil war between the Northern aud
Southern states now in possession Of
the Secretary of War, be buried in a
sunken vault at the capital OF the ma
tiou, and that the several postmasters
OF the United States be authorized to
take up subscriptions from patriotic
citizens of their respective localities
for the purpose of erecting above the
battle flag vault aforesaid, monument
of suitable design to be dedicated TO
national reconci iation. The post
masters 10 forward the contributi uns SO
collected with their quarterly returns
of m ,ney received during the present
fiscal year, the same TO be turned into
the Treasury by the Post Office De-
partment, 20 be expended by commits
sion thereafter to be appointed by the
President and confirmed by the Senate
to carry out the object aforesaid. And
your petitioners will ever pray etc.
We think this project would afford a IA
vorahie opportunity to our comrades ID
manifest in "A patriotic manner their great
fus appreciation OF being piicei uno" the
pension roll Ior services TO The VII, lo CO III
try rendered forty years ago."